Children and Families Team Support Worker
| Posting date: | 15 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £24,486 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Location: | Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Urban Outreach (Bolton) |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Urban Outreach is a charity founded in 1990 to help address and arrest poverty in all its forms across Bolton in Greater Manchester. With the active support of many partners across the town, we have grown and diversified our services over the years and currently have 24 staff and hundreds of volunteers helping us in our work.
We have a Runa Support Worker vacancy in our Children & Families Team. We are looking for a compassionate and highly motivated individual to join our RUNA (Missing from Home) Project. The project focuses on supporting families, children and young people who are affected by periods of missing from home and the risks associated. The job involves empowering young people to have a voice and to be listened to through the delivery of independent return interviews. RUNA provides bespoke, one-to-one support building trusted relationships with young people. RUNA promotes and contributes to a multi-agency safeguarding response.
You can learn more about Urban Outreach Bolton and all we do from our website. The successful candidate for this position will be passionate about developing our work in providing life-transformational support to those afflicted by poverty and disadvantage in our town, as a practical expression of the Christian faith we share. They will help individuals to develop strategies to overcome the difficulties they are facing, make positive life-style changes to reduce the risk of further issues arising and to live healthy, safe and rewarding lives.
We have a Runa Support Worker vacancy in our Children & Families Team. We are looking for a compassionate and highly motivated individual to join our RUNA (Missing from Home) Project. The project focuses on supporting families, children and young people who are affected by periods of missing from home and the risks associated. The job involves empowering young people to have a voice and to be listened to through the delivery of independent return interviews. RUNA provides bespoke, one-to-one support building trusted relationships with young people. RUNA promotes and contributes to a multi-agency safeguarding response.
You can learn more about Urban Outreach Bolton and all we do from our website. The successful candidate for this position will be passionate about developing our work in providing life-transformational support to those afflicted by poverty and disadvantage in our town, as a practical expression of the Christian faith we share. They will help individuals to develop strategies to overcome the difficulties they are facing, make positive life-style changes to reduce the risk of further issues arising and to live healthy, safe and rewarding lives.